どろぼう, 70, has spent 43 YEARS locked up in psychiatric hospital for stealing a necklace 価値（がある） $20

• Franklin Frye has been locked away in the St Elizabeth's psychiatric 施設 since 1971
• A 動議 for his 解放（する） was とじ込み／提出するd six years ago but is yet to be heard by a 裁判官
• The man who 試みる／企てるd to assassinate 大統領 Ronald Reagan is housed at the same 施設

By Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 15:07 BST, 23 January 2014 | Updated: 15:13 BST, 23 January 2014

A 70-year-old man in Washington D.C. has spent more than 40 years locked away in a D.C. hospital for the 有罪に insane. His 罪，犯罪: stealing a necklace 価値（がある） $20.

Franklin H. Frye was sent to the psychiatric wing of St. Elizabeth's Hospital in 1971 after he was 設立する not 有罪の by 推論する／理由 of insanity for stealing the necklace.

Six years ago, a public defender とじ込み／提出するd a 動議 asking a 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 to 認める Mr. Frye an 無条件の 解放（する）. In the 動議, 弁護士／代理人／検事s for Mr. Frye 特記する／引用するd his 回復 over the last four １０年間s he spent in psychiatric 捕らわれた as grounds for his 解放（する）.

Frye's 事例／患者, however, is yet to be heard by a 裁判官.

Psych 区: Franklin Frye has spent more than 40 years in the St. Elizabeth's psychiatric 施設 for stealing a $20 necklace

In what the Washington Times - which broke the story about Mr. Frye after reviewing his 事例／患者 and 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 記録，記録的な／記録するs - 述べるs as 'a serious judicial 決裂／故障,' Mr. Frye's 事例／患者 seems to have slipped through the 割れ目s.

によれば the paper, the 初めの 裁判官 割り当てるd to Mr. Frye's 事例／患者 died in 2007 - when the 動議 for Mr. Frye's 解放（する） was first とじ込み／提出するd.

The 事例／患者 wasn't transferred to a 裁判官 who is still breathing until the last few weeks.

'Mr. Frye has been waiting over five years to have this 動議 heard by the 法廷，裁判所,' Silvana Naguib, a lawyer now 代表するing him, wrote in a Jan. 8 合法的な とじ込み／提出するing.

'Mr. Frye was （刑事）被告 of stealing a necklace that was valued at だいたい twenty dollars,' Ms. Naguib continued in the 動議. 'He has been at St. Elizabeth's Hospital almost continuously since.'

Glacial pace: Frye's most 最近の 動議 for his 解放（する） was とじ込み／提出するd six years ago - but is yet to be heard by a 裁判官

Like St. Elizabeth's Hospital's most famous 居住（者）, John Hinckley Jr. - the man who infamously 発射 大統領 Ronald Reagan in 1981 - Mr. Frye has been permitted to spend short 量s of time out of the hospital. Until December, he was part of an outpatient program at Washington Hospital 中心. That program ended because of 基金ing problems - and Mr. Frye was sent 支援する to the psychiatric 区.

Frye has とじ込み／提出するd several 動議s for his 解放（する） over the last 40 years, 含むing one two years after he was committed. In that 動議, the hospital director recommended that Mr. Frye be 無条件に 解放（する）d. The 裁判官, however, 認可するd a 条件付きの 解放（する） so Mr. Frye could look for a 職業.

'In the 早期に years of Mr. Frye’s 入院, Mr. Frye would いつかs get in fights with other 患者s, often over money, food, 着せる／賦与するing and the other hotly 願望（する）d 商品／必需品s of institutional life,' Ms. Naguib wrote in her 動議. 'However, in the last １０年間, as Mr. Frye has 老年の, these 衝突s have all but 消えるd. Now, nearly 70, Mr. Frye 陳列する，発揮するs no dangerous 行為 of any 肉親，親類d.'

悪名高い: John Hinckley, the man who 発射 大統領 Ronald Reagan, is also held at St. Elizabeth's Hospital

In his 最新の 動議, Mr. Frye's 弁護士／代理人／検事s 繰り返し言う the （人命などを）奪う，主張するs made in the 2008 動議 that was never heard by a 裁判官: 'Mr. Frye has 回復するd his sanity and no longer 苦しむs from a mental illness as defined by 法律.'

Just one day after Naguib とじ込み／提出するd the most 最近の 動議 on Frye's に代わって, his 事例／患者 was transferred to a living 裁判官. It's 不明瞭な when - or if - the 裁判官 will 支配する on the 動議 for Mr. Frye's 解放（する）.?